"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river." -Lisa See
"The most beautiful stories always start with a wreckage" - Jack London
"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence." - Octavia E. Butler
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." -Louis L'Amour
"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works." -Virginia Woolf
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka